A mere 2 on the bias rictor scale
- Has Haaretz's editorial change taken place this week? The last few days have witnessed a discerable drop in bias. There have been more Lefty Sharon-bashing op-eds in Maariv than Haaretz!

Still, this article has a few subtle twists of reality:

"The right recruits the generals" - implies a conspiracy, and broadly attributes the right leaning population with a minority anti-seperation perspective, when it is in fact the Left that is against the security fence

"Israeli hawks have therefore found an unlikely ally in Hamas" - Uh-uh Haaretz - its the Left thats buddy buddy with Arafat's PLO goons!

"The price that Sharon would pay for a u-turn on the [unilateral withdrawal] plan, is the end of his career" - WHy do so many Haaretz journalists interpret anything that happens as the end of SHaron? Could it be obsessive wishful thinking?

"Sharon may be weaker than Barak was" - Implies character wakness, when in fact the topic is lack of support for unilateral seperation

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A shrunken, beaten Meretz, with Yossi Beilin arriving only after he was essentially thrown out of Labor by Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, and didn't make it into the Knesset as the 11th candidate on the Meretz list.
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He belongs in European salons, a near alien in Israeli reality. Beilin has long been in the national Lefty pagan pantheon of radical left leaders. The Oslo War, the Geneva surrender, Abu Mazen, Arafat - they could all be synonyms for Beilin, for whom the doors of [Israel-bashing] international statesmen are always open.
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the race for the leadership of Yahad, which really means Meretz, is [another] attempt to shake off past [surrender-monkey] images that have stuck to them.
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speaking about his vision of Israel as a potential [pinko] socialist state like Sweden Cuba, talking exlusively to Ashenazim about long lunches, Beilin said that the most important thing is to fight for the welfare state. He went on, 'I wrote a book about socialism ("From Socialism to Social Liberalism," Am Oved, 1999). I don't know anyone else in the Knesset who wrote a book on socialism.'
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Bielin's fellow Lefty, Cohen commented: 'Did you see that sourpuss?'"

What a moral dilemma from Haaretz: let some hate-filled olive picker get to all his trees instead of building the fence, or let your children get blown to bits.

BTY, This crone has no journalistic integrity:In order to further her pro-Palestinian position, Haas has violated basic journalistic standards. In June 2001, the Jerusalem District Court ordered Ha'aretz and Hass to pay 250,000 shekels (about $80,000) for slandering the Jewish community of Hebron. Judge Rachel Shalev-Gartel concluded in favor of the Hebron residents, ruling that Haas' report -- disproven by several televised accounts of the incident -- damaged the community's reputation.

Haaretz attempts a trial by media nearly every day, harping on about the following unsubstantiated allegations:

a disqualified legal loophole misinterpreted for early elections

some chance 5 weeks aquaintance of Sharon with Tanenebaums ex-father-in-law 30 years ago

The so called Greek Island affair

The so called Apple bribes case

THe so called Cyril Kern loan scandal

His son Gilad's daily activities

Some caribiean money fabrication

– none of which have produced indictments! The law has not found Sharon guilty of anything, let alone any actual evidence or witnesses to any wrong-doing yet the Left harps on like he is guilty of multiple criminal counts. Its a smear campaign plain and simple, 3 articles a day.

What really interests Haaretz is Sharon's removal from government and they are willing to dig – or dream – up any storm in a teacup to achieve their goal. Instead of Letting Sharon get down to a unilateral withdrawal and completion of the security fence in order to extract ourselves from the Left's Oslo mess,, Haaretz prefers to sling mud wherever they find it.

"Over a juicy steak dinner, Jibril Rajoub, terrorist envoy of the Muqata, managed to trick Israeli journalists once again. Oslo’s jolly days of deception are back.

Just to remind you that the steak dinner at Bardouny’s took place just three weeks after a terrorist from the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades—Rajoub and his master’s organization—blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem.

the blind devotion with which the Israeli media accepted the disastrous fantasy tales of the day have returned.

Once again we are receiving selective reports about good terrorists and bad terrorists. Once again the most elemental questions are not being asked. "

So much so, that Debka notes that the Israeli media is kicking arround Ariel Sharon.

THe latest is a a legal loophole misinterpreted for early elections, and some chance 5 weeks aquaintance with Tanenebaums ex-father-in-law 30 years ago.

Haaretz has a raging obsession with a trivial coincidence and the Israeli public must be made aware of the Left's contortions of malicious slurs.

Beset by media generated implied innuendo, calls for his resignation, state inquiry probes and questions in the Knesset from the Lefty opposition, Sharon accused the media of an unheard of, unbridled assault on his good name. Not since the slander campaign against Bibi's wife has the press sunk so low.

Haaretz aatempts a trial by media nearly every day, harping on about the Greek Island affair, the Apple bribes case and the Cyril Kern loan scandal – none of which have produced indictments.

What really interests Haaretz is Sharon's removal from government and they are willing to dig – or dream – up any storm in a teacup to achieve their goal. Instead of Letting Sharon get down to a unilateral withdrawal and completion of the security fence in order to extract ourselves from the Left's Oslo mess,, Haaretz prefers to sling mud wherever they find it.

Amira Hass writes another olive grape picker sob story
"show the viewers the vineyards of Sheikh Ajalin, the ripe grapefruits, the peasants who for years nurtured the fruit with great love only to see it all turned to scorched earth left behind by Israeli tanks and bulldozers. No movie has yet been produced that would enable Israelis to taste the wonderful grapes of Sheikh Ajalin." - blah blah blah.

Amira doesnt get that we care more about our children's survival than her romantic grape stories.

This lady's 5 minutes on the historic soapbox are over. Let Amira know that she's a has-been relic from the delusional Oslo era.

The report isn’t secret, it wasn’t suppressed, the Observer isn’t the first to “obtain” it, and it was prepared for, rather than by, the Pentagon. Fortune magazine had the whole story last month.The result is an unclassified report, completed late last year, that the Pentagon has agreed to share with FORTUNE. It doesn't pretend to be a forecast. Rather, it sketches a dramatic but plausible scenario to help planners think about coping strategies.

Its bad enough that Haaretz is biased but when the newspaper parrots the mistakes of others, its time to cancel your subscription!
¶ 8:30 PM

This is how Haaretz describes the brave families of terror victims who went to the Hague:
"a show of whining and whimpering... a display of wretchedness and woe designed to tug at the heartstrings of international public opinion - like beggars who show off the stump of an arm or leg to make the world feel sorry for them."

Wether we stay in Gaza or not the Palestinains will still hate us, and support / attempt terrorism.

Haaretz doesnt want to end the quagmire, and opposes the unilateral seperation and the fence.

Next time Haaretz cries "occupation", remember that the Left would rather we rule over Gaza and perpetuate deaths on both sides, than to unilaterally leave Gaza to more defencible borders without an Oslo surender agreement.
¶ 12:07 AM

THe Oslo war braught about by the Left's machinations has cost - the IDF does need money to defend the country and save lives.

As for the paragraph 2 jibe about Sharon having "no strategic vision", what do you call the bold steps of unilateral seperation and the security fence? A strategy to get us out of the Oslo quagmire the Left led us into.
¶ 12:01 AM

Amira Hass, turncoat resident of Rammalahstan is either a lousy reporter or a liar. SHe lived in Gaza and Rammalah for 10 years - she must hear "Ichbad Al Yehud" at least once a day. She speaks with Hamas and Islamic Jihadis on a regular basis, and they do not hide their intention when they repeatedly state a Judenrein Palestine between the Jordan and the sea is their goal. Is she deaf? Or does she deconstruct the murderous statements of Jihadi representatives to meet the Dogma-agenda disseminated to Haaretz readers?

Amira bends over backwards trying to figure out why Pali-terrorists try to kill Jews at every opportunity. SHe comes up with all sorts of excuses that usually involve blaming Palestinian savegery on Israeli self-defence (eg "the awful fence/dreadful wall" as she refers to it).

what she fails to realize or mention is the main reason Pali-terrorist carry out murderous attacks against Jews at every possible opportunity, even if it defies logic and sets back their own cause. The reasons are simple, Amira: fundamentalist Jihad and hatred for Jews.

The Left has not yet internalized that the goal of all the Palistinian factions is still the destruction of Israel under the guise of the sympathetic struggle for independence.

Maybe Amira spent so long searching for the "root causes" of Pali-terrorism that she started rooting for the cause.
¶ 12:08 AM

Indymedia was shutdown by Israeli law becase of blatent antisemitism, such as: a caricature which depicted Sharon dressed in an SS uniform, and a caricature depicting Ariel Sharon enthusiastically kissing Adolf Hitler. (these minor details were buried in paragraphs 6 and 7)

Haaretz blathers on about the poor website administrator getting harrassed by the police. Haaretz doesnt care that antisemitism is a crime in Israel, and defends the perpertrator.